Everyone is allowed to believe in their own delusions so I will not fault you. However the facts will not change. And the British playing fiddle with friendly clans to reduce the others' influence will never change the facts on the ground.
The Gadabursi lived all the way to Bulhar and covered the tract from there all the way to Wajalale:
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Kalangeret was a Gadabursi coastal town where the French met the Gadabursi. It is even recorded in the French Treaty with the Gadabursi as being an important port town:
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Articles 2 of the treaty:
"The French government will have the option of opening one or more commercial ports on the coast belonging to the territory of the Gada-boursis."
It's mentioned here aswell as part of the Gadabursi territory:
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Script:
"Mohamed Abdi Liban, a wealthy merchant from El Darad (Ceel Daraad), alongside Haji Sharmarke, attempted to establish a settlement in Kalangreet, in the land of the Gadabuursi tribe".
Even Gadabursi bedouin raiders' headquarters were based in Wadi Aschat in the coastal strip east of Saylac:
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No politicized British favouritism actually changes the reality on the ground. There was a reason why the British had a vested interest in giving the impression that we were not significant and that's because we initally chose the French until relations with them soured in the 1960's. But the reality on the ground always reigns supreme.